New Delhi: Not enough evidence is CBI's final word on Jagdish Tytler. Not fair, protest Sikh families who have been fighting for justice for 25 years. The timing of the report too has raised eyebrows.
H S Phoolka, counsel for '84 Riots Victims, says: "The CBI has been behaving like a stooge of Jagdish Tytler.The accused has all the rights, the victims have no rights."
Sattu Singh, a victim's relative, says: "CBI should be ashamed of itself."
Tytler was accused by the Nanavati Commission probing the 1984 riots as having a "very probable" hand in organising attacks on Sikhs. The CBI took up the case in October 2005.
The testimony of Jasbir Singh, a US-resident who claimed he saw Tytler inciting the mobs, was critical. But CBI says Jasbir Singh's testimony is inconsistent.
Says Jagdish Tytler: "I am relieved. This entire thing was hyped up by the media....I wasn't enquired into."
The timing of this report giving him a clean chit couldn't have been better for Congress leader Jagdish Tytler as he gets into election mode. And while the victims' families are distraught, their only hope now is the court which will now decide whether to accept the CBI report.